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- From: djm2@Hovercraft.msstate.edu (Dan Murrell Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Battle of the Browsers!
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 05:00:30 GMT
- Organization: An eel-filled hovercraft
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- In article <3621.6658T1133T1717@stack.urc.tue.nl> elvis@stack.urc.tue.nl (Mark van der Molen) writes:
- > On 25-Mar-96 02:44:35 Lars Janssen (lars@mistral.co.uk) wrote :
- >
- > >AWEB
- > > - Opens multiple network connections, to help make the most of your
- > > available bandwidth, especially with slower sites. Displays pages
- > > as they download.
- >
- > Ibrowse does this too
-
- Nowhere near as nice.
-
- > Scrolling is as slow, and sometimes even slower than ibrowse(both running on a
- > 64 color screen)
-
- AWeb is much faster on my system, which is a cybergfx setup, 8 bit workbench.
- Your 64 color screen is a native chipset screenmode, I presume? That's gonna
- be slow anyway.
-
- > The aweb gui uses BOOPSI, because MUI would be too slow.Using both Ibrowse and
- > Aweb I find Aweb's screen redraw is much slower than Ibrowse's.So what's the
- > advantage of BOOPSI ?
- > On the other hand in mui you can select to use BOOPSI images too.Getting
- > Ibrowse to run on it's own screen is dead simple if you know how to use mui.
- > But i think it would be more difficult if you have just started using MUI,
- > then ppl have to learn using Ibrowse as well as MUI.
-
- MUI is BOOPSI too. Although it's classes are specific to MUI and the context in
- which they run causes MUI apps to "stall" occasionally. Normal Intuition BOOPSI
- runs on a context independant of the app. Normal Intuition BOOPSI classes can
- be updating themselves despite what the program is doing. For example, and this
- is probably a bad one but nevertheless, AWeb and IBrowse both crash. If you resize
- AWeb's window, the gadgets will still resize. If you resize IBrowse's window, the
- gadgets will just be dead. Even if AWeb itself is dead, the gadgets are still
- "alive" unlike the MUI gadgets of IBrowse which will be dead because the app is
- dead.
-
- As far as MUI allowing you to select BOOPSI imagery, that's totally unrelated.
-
- > Ibrowse has been very stable here, only the veryfirst release version crashed
- > all the time
-
- IBrowse has never worked for me other than local browsing, because their
- AS225 support apparently breaks under INet-225 (every other AS225 program
- I've seen works fine under INet, including AMosaic by essentially the same
- team.) Although in local browsing, IBrowse worked flawlessly for me.
-
- Dan
-